Coalition
(in the theory of games)
A group of persons or teams making a decision under conflict (a coalition of actions), or defending certain interests (a coalition of interests). See Games, theory of.
Comments
Formally, in an -player game a coalition is a non-empty subset of the set of players (a group of players). The set itself is sometimes called the "grand-coalitiongrand-coalition" . Usually there will be an argument in such a group concerning the choices to be made by the members of the group. In general the members will act jointly in such a way as to guarantee greater gain (cf. Gain function) to themselves than they could ensure independently.
A coalition structure is a family of disjoint non-empty subsets of . (See also [a1].)
References
[a1] | J. Szép, F. Forgó, "Introduction to the theory of games" , Reidel (1985) |
[a2] | J.W. Friedman, "Oligopoly and the theory of games" , North-Holland (1977) |
Coalition. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Coalition&oldid=11922